Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
...Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered in 1848; Zachary Taylor, 12th President; Inventor Lewis Edson Waterman (fountain...
Meetings of the Student Conference on Careers in Government, scheduled to begin on April 12th at Harvard, should arouse the interest of the whole student-body. With governmental agencies playing an increasingly important part in the daily lives of all, it is essential to understand many of the principles to be debated. Since the speakers are men of very different beliefs who have been active in various phases of political life, the aim of a well-rounded program will be attained...
...Brainerd in his letter to the CRIMSON, which was published on March 21st, states that the Harvard Unity Club. The Young People's Religious Union, and The Second Church of Boston are among the groups supporting the anti-war strike on April 12th. This is not so. These organizations sent unofficial delegates to the Anti-War Conference last fall, and later took an unofficial part on the Continuations Committee. No support is being given to the strike of April 12th, because these organizations do not believe in the method which is being used. George R. Farnham '36. President, The Harvard...
...reference to your article in the CRIMSON of March 20th, in which you stated that "The Liberal Club voted last night to join in the anti-war strike which the National Student League will stage on April 12th," may I point out that the anti-war strike, as well as being sponsored by nation-wide organizations, is locally being "staged" by the Continuations Committee of the Armistice Day Anti-War Conference? This committee includes delegates not only from the N.S.L., but also from the Young People's Religious Union, The Student League for Industrial Democracy. The Emerson and The Tufts...